{"id":7124,"date":"2011-08-14T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2011-08-14T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:24:49","slug":"white-house-debates-fight-on-economy-all-is-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/08\/14\/white-house-debates-fight-on-economy-all-is-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Debates Fight on Economy – All Is Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the article, White House Debates Fight on Economy<\/strong><\/a>, in The New York Times<\/em> is true, then there can be no clearer indication that this President is toast.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying it safe is not going to cut it,\u201d said Ms. Romer, a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. \u201cNot proposing anything bold and not trying to do something to definitively deal with our problems would mean that we\u2019re going to have another year and a half like the last year and a half \u2014 and then it\u2019s awfully hard to get re-elected.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there is little support for such an approach inside the administration. A series of departures has left few economists among Mr. Obama\u2019s senior advisers. Several of his political advisers are skeptical about the merits of stimulus spending, and they are certain about the politics: voters do not like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The very fact that the political advisers think voters do not like the only action that can get this economy going again shows the administration’s abysmal failure to even try to convince the public of what the right action is.\u00a0 What kind of a leader only picks policies that the electorate has been fooled by the opposition into thinking they want?\u00a0 If the opposition can convince the public to want the wrong policies, doesn’t Obama think he owes it to us to try to change the public’s thinking on the issue?\u00a0 It’s almost as if the Republicans have succeeded in bamboozling the President as well as a large part of the electorate. If\u00a0 Obama is not even sure of what the right policies are, we can’t expect him to be a strong voice fighting for those policies. That is why I think all is lost.<\/p>\n

How do you define a Republican?\u00a0 Usually a Republican of any standing is “skeptical about the merits of stimulus spending”.\u00a0 Is this the person we thought we elected?\u00a0 Why, the very audacity of hope!!<\/p>\n

The only hope we have left is that The New York Times<\/em> is making up this story as they have done with many stories in the past.\u00a0 Although the most documented lies that they have told have been involved with creating excuses to go to war.\u00a0 Their usual technique is to use anonymous sources.\u00a0 In this story they appear to name names.\u00a0 They give names to the different people on the different sides of the debate.\u00a0 However, they do not claim that the named people gave them the information.<\/p>\n

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House director of communications, said that there was no internal debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is at least one named White House official that claims The New York Times<\/em> story is bunk.\u00a0 It is rather a thin thread to hang your hopes on.<\/p>\n

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Don’t be so sure about previous Republicans ever wavering on this principle.<\/p>\n

WikiPedia throws some doubt on the claim that Richard Nixon said, “We are all Keynesians now<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the article, White House Debates Fight on Economy, in The New York Times is true, then there can be no clearer indication that this President is toast. \u201cPlaying it safe is not going to cut it,\u201d said Ms. Romer, a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. \u201cNot proposing anything bold and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}